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Hi all, finally managed to find a place where i can use the com to update mi blog as well as to read mi e-mail... hahhaz and guess where is tat??? that is the library where it is onli open till abt 9pm..... it is rather near mi hotstel where i am staying abt 5 min walk.... alot of the time we are walking here cuz we dun wanna waste money to buy stuff.... this entry will be a bit longer so i hope all of u will bear wif mi as i haf a lot of complaints to make lor.... :p
Where shall we start?? how abt from day one.... wEll here goEs... At the airport after everyone left us... we boarded the plane and guess wat our seats were taken by a grp of singaporean tourist.... cuz they wanted window seats.... and so we spent abt like 10 min finding seats tat are together or at least near each other...
but after we settled down it still took abt half-an hour b4 we started to fly cuz i think the crew was not ready and i haf to admit i was rather skeptical of this particular airline which i was flying becuz it was a small airplane and alot of blacks... hahahz not tat i am racist... but i was juz afraid of the smell... and the service might be compromised... becuz of the cheap price...
bUt the service crew seem rather friendly and the plane didn't smell at all... hahhaz bUt as we took off, the plane was very unsteady... and i was so afraid the plane would crash... hahahz becuz the plane took off den stopped acsending den continued ascending and den stopped again... this continued for abt 10 min b4 the plane reached the right altitude and maintained speed... and the seatbelt sign stopped lighting up.... it was rather scary during tat time and we all had a good laugh abt it... but after tat i realised the service was rather good and it had excellent food... hahhaz i ate the seafood pasta and it tasted real great but maybe its becuz i was hungry... lol... they served lunch at 3 lor... =P
and the landing was equally horrible, it was rather jerky... but when we landed and stepped into the airport, it was not the usual busy scene tat greeted us, but rather a very quiet and serious place... i called home first to tell them tat i landed and going to pass immigration.... but the immigration was ridiculous.... we had to fill in so many entry forms and even a SARS form which they juz threw into the dustbin... And the guy checking immigration took so long to chop mi passport tat i was so afraid that i can't enter China lor....
And the temp in the airport was so stuffy dun noe wat is wrong wif the aircon... so hot and humid only when we stepped out of the airport did we notice the weather change, it was not tat cold and rather cooling too... it was a nice change to the hot weather in Singapore... the coldness is not tat bad it is onli cold when there are large breezes.... which happen very often... So we saw our teacher and he helped us load all our things into a mini-van and we drove towards our hostel... it was alreadi six plus by then...
On the mini-van, we asked so many questions tat i think our teacher wanted to get rid of us immediately.... hahahz cuz we had so many queries which we wanted answers to... We drove past the main city of Beijing and came to this place a little bit off the city area in a street called 北一街.... in the mini-van our teacher alreadi told us tat the living conditions were a bit simple and we were actually prepared for the worst liao... we were thinking tat the house would be a bit small and the toilet would be squatting style.... but nth could prepare us for wat we saw...
our mini-van pulled up in front of a 4 storey old dilapidated building and we were shocked that our hostel was so old... but not yet, there is more to come... When we arrived at the house, it was alreadi seven liao and quite dark so cannot realli see properly and we thot we might haf been deceived by the darkness.... but wat we couldn't accept was the house itself... our apartment(as they like to call it) is on the first store which of course we are very happy with cuz we were carrying a lot of luggage... bUt when they opened the door, i almost screamed.... The apartment was nth but a corridor with juz 5 doors and a bathroom area.... And two of the doors were locked becuz they are not used.... and it was very scary to haf two doors locked in a house...
And the whole house was so dusty tat i on every piece of furniture, the dust was at least a few mm thick... it seems vacant for a few years le lor... Wat shocked mi the most was the rooms and the toilets... (which was all the house had... hahahz) We saw wooden planks on the bedframe and tat was it, we thot we had to slp on hard wood and nth else... and the toilet was so dirty and disgusting i seriously thot i wouldn't bath for 3 months... i thot we were living in a squatter's corner or sumthing...
Later, Dr huang (our teacher) juz gave us each a bedsheet set, a beanbag pillow, a comforter, a mattress cover and tat was it... we were supposed to lay the mattress cover over the planks and juz slp like tat... Wah the sight of the bed realli turned mi off and i didn't even wanna touch the bed cuz the whole thing was filled wif dust... hahahz... but got no choice, we were all very tired and had to juz make do wif it for the night... and other than the beds, we were provided with the bare minimal... a kettle, some hot water flasks, toilet rolls and plastic bags for trash and tat was it... Oh yeah and some realli realli old rags...
So we started getting down to cleaning up the apartment... We cleaned the planks, the bed frame and most impt we sweeped the floor... We had to borrow many stuff like slippers, vaccum cleaner, more rags, toilet rolls, utencils from Dr Huang's house and we didn't feel paiseh cuz we realli needed the stuff and also becuz it was him who got us into this predicament.... he didn't even bother to buy a proper mattress for us... So we cleaned up the house till abt 9 plus b4 setting out to find a decent meal...
After cleaning the house, we all had a sence of satisfaction tat we had managed to clean the house into a livable environment... wE ate beef noodles tat night, Dr huang's treat and the serving was so big tat i couldn't finish mi food or maybe it was becuz the house had thrown mi off mi appetite... either way, most of us couldn't finish the food also and the price was very cheap... 7 rmb for such a big bowl but the beef was not much lar... dEn we walked ard our neighbourhood and we saw many other food stalls and fruit stalls as well as a provision shop where we bought some snacks and mineral water becuz we didn't wanto haf a stomachache the moment we stepped into China.... The mineral water here also very cheap... 2.5rmb for a 1.5 liter bottle.... S$0.5 hahahz wat a steal....
aFter tat, some of them went to bath but i didn't cuz i still couldn't stand the toilet yet i guess it takes a little getting used to first... i juz washed mi face and went to slp... hahahz there were still alot of things to do the next day... Surprisingly, i went to slp straight away... didn't even need to think abt it... The next morning we woke up at ard nine plus... a luxury cuz i think we were all very tired... den we all took turns to go toilet and wash face... There were onli 1 toilet for 7 ppl can u imagine tat...??
Den after tat we went for a walk to carrefour 加乐福 to go buy many many stuff for ourself and the house... we bought dustbin, more rags, trash bag, slippers, 3 laundry bins to throw all our dirty clothes in to go to huang's house to wash cuz we realli not paiseh de.... hahhaz he has to suffer for wat he did to us like amelia said... lolz... dEn i bought a pillow and a bolster... i dun wanna suffer for 3 months for no reason and they were all quite cheap de... one for S$6.... we spent abt a total of 400 rmb at carrefour...
dEn we went back to clean again.... can u imagine tat??? hw dirty the house is... we spent the whole afternoon cleaning the house and den we went to eat dinner at ard 7 plus.... at another place where they sell realli cheap dumplings.... a whole basket for 3 rmb inside got abt 12 bah... so we ordered two baskets and a plate of noodles each... for 7 rmb and our dinner was settled juz lydat.... hahhaz... dEn we went for a walk ard the whole place to go buy bread for breakfast the next day as well as to know more abt our surroundings...
tHe weather is realli cold early in the morning... esp after u juz wake up... It is juz unbearable... and i was chattering away... all the time... aFter u got used to it liao den u will feel better... this was how mi first two days in beijing were lived out...
Hahaz... today right, i went to start work at one of the labs here juz 5 min walk away... quite near but it is also a very old building and it had no proper labs(at least tats wat i think after comparing to those we haf in sch... )tHE labs were rather cramped and small and very messy not neatly stacked like our sch labs and they didn't even bother to use aseptic techniques to carry out their experiments... hahahz... and all we did the whole day was to walk ard the labs like ghost like we didn't exist and juz look... we wanted to ask questions but everyone juz seemed so busy tat we didn't wanto disturb them...
we were juz told to look ard for the first day and den juz to know our surroundings... we would start work in the next few days.. but seriously the labs are so small den in juz 5 minutes, we finished touring the whole place... not juz the labs, realli the whole place... OMG den we juz wandered ard, walking from room to room all over again until we almost went mad... and we decided to hint to the guy to let us off... den he told us it was lunch so we happily went off to buy some stuff back home to eat.... dEn their lunch hour is 2 hours long de lor...
hahahz... and so we lazed ard at the house and went back after 2 hours... reluctantly of course... their working hour is from 8 till 6pm.... such long hours.... today we got ready for work at 8 plus when our teacher came nad told us tat he would come back again at ten to bring us to the labs... wah den we had two spare hours, so we went for a walk and find the basketball court and the postal center... dEn at ten we were bought to the labs where we onli walked ard till abt 11.30 b4 we break off for lunch....
Returning to the building, we went to tour the labs AGAIN and this time we hinted to the guy again to let us go home and finally he got our hint... and we knocked off at 3... sO now here i am after playing basketball which i didn't sweat.. hahahz... the weather here is so cool and dry tat sweat doesn't even form... hahhaz...
bUt another thing abt the air here is tat it is dry and dirty... walking on the roads, we can see huge particles flying in the air...
aNother thing to say is the traffic... wah seriously.. i dun noe y they build the red man and green man light lor... when the green man appears, it doesn't mean we can juz walk onto the streets lor... we haf to give way to cars turning and it is so scary crossing the road tat we try to avoid it at all times and if possible follow their ppl when crossing the road.. the car will not stop for u de lor... and worst still the ppl juz barge onto the road like it's theirs and the cars would juz honk their horns every now and then.... so noisy... now i know y we muz look left and right and left again b4 crossing the road.. it doesn't apply in singapore but more in beijing.... hahahhz.... okok time;s up liao... muz go back home to bath... down here, one hour is 4rmb to us the com so quite cheap... next time pls tune in again... hahahz
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